blame canada

[rone]

Vancouver's traffic lights tend to blink green a lot. I don't see the point. Many also seem to exist only along the main street, and the cross street only gets stop signs. The lights turn red so pedestrians may cross safely. It seems like a half-assed way to save on traffic lights.

Vancouver is very similar to San Francisco in many ways: surrounded by water, a bustling Chinatown, a large park in the northwest, a suspension bridge that leads out of the northern part of the city, large clusters of homeless people. Commercial Drive is a collection of New Age-y shops and vegan/vegetarian restaurants that reminded me a bit of Berkeley.

The ferry ride to Victoria is beautiful. So is Victoria. Here we found the same painted orca statues we found in Vancouver, a series similar to the cow statues in Kansas City. We took a walk to the end of the Ogden Point seawall and back, and saw a bunch of starfish (including a fuzzy purple variety), lots of two kinds of jellyfish (one about cantaloupe-sized and dark reddish, the other basketball-sized and eggyolk yellow), as well as one lazy seal who cruised by for a couple of minutes before returning to deeper waters.

We saw the first episode of "Medical Investigation", and the characters can be summarized as the hardass, the tightass, the badass, the dumbass, and the piece of ass. We also caught Napoleon Dynamite, which was weird, often surprising, goofy, funny, and cute. Not great, but good.

On the ferry out of Tsawwassen to Victoria, there were prominent signs that forbade further transportation of BEES.

We're leaving Victoria now, heading back to Seattle.

Comments

[ratphooey.livejournal.com]

The flashing green is the signal for left-turners to go.

[wisn.livejournal.com]

Green light means go, blinking green means you have right of way (eg, if you're on a two-way street, the opposing traffic does not have a green light).

[sunburn.livejournal.com]

On the second episode of Medical Investigation, you'll get to see that the NIH has its own lab and office built into a Navy-operated C-130. It's basically the CSI set built into an airplane (well, it doesn't even seem a little bit like they're on an airplane, but you know) with the office in front, lab in the middle, and garage replete with SUV in back.

They started out by telling Jake 2.0 (the dumbass) that it's something they don't get to use that often, but I don't think that'll be the case. Until they get bought for next season, you can bet they won't write in a "home base" setting for the characters, and they'll have to live with a decked-out cargo plane.

Welcome [back] to Seattle!

available for beer?

[lara7.livejournal.com]

I noticed you'd be in town while I was out at Burning Hams, but it didn't occur to me you'd still be around after visiting Canuckland. gimmie a call if you two are in seattle tonight and wanna grab a beer or something. I work til 9pm but will be up late.

206-799-0374

[allknight.livejournal.com]

Rone,

I liked my first and only trip to Vancouver. I flew up to Seattle then drove up there with a friend just to ride a famous old wooden roller-coaster at Exhibition park. I wouldn't mind making back up there some day again...

[schwa242.livejournal.com]

On the ferry out of Tsawwassen to Victoria, there were prominent signs that forbade further transportation of BEES.

When we saw this sign I said in a panicky voice, "Holy shit... the trunk's full of them!"

I want to go back already.

-- Schwa ---

[tongodeon.livejournal.com]

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